Waymo
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Vehicle Intent and Prediction
Mountain View, California +1 · Internship · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
Mountain View, California, United States - Education
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program.
About the job
Conduct research and engineering on vehicle intent and prediction by training and evaluating loss-of-control models, deriving data-quality signals, and building synthetic-data annotation pipelines.
What you'll do
- Train and evaluate a Loss of Control model to assess the quality impact of changes.
- Use existing learned models to derive data-quality signals and design measures of their effectiveness.
- Develop or augment pipelines to annotate synthetic training data with those signals.
What they ask for
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program.
- ML coding experience in Python (e.g., JAX or Pytorch).
- Strong knowledge of foundational statistics and math.
- Familiarity with neural networks.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with C++, especially for data-processing pipelines.
- Prior experience with robotics or prediction problems.
Pay
$85 — $85 USD per hour (hourly pay)
Tools
Python, JAX, Pytorch, C++
AI focus
Train and evaluate learned models and use model-derived signals to assess data quality and annotate synthetic training data.
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